New song: Detroit's got Hate on the runAs Laurin drove to Gesu Catholic Church in northwest Detroit to sing the song at an anti-violence rally and walk on Friday ... Stevenson High School and was a member of the Mosaic Youth Theatre. The Free Press invited the professional singer to stop ...04/3/2015 - 2:40 pm | View Link

Anti-violence youth gunned down, but not silencedTo be sure, Fayetteville is no Detroit, New Orleans or Chicago ... That evening, Ravon and another friend attended an anti-violence rally in town. Afterward, the two headed to a house party in the city’s Southgate section. Shortly after 1 a.m., an ...07/25/2014 - 9:18 am | View Link

Anti-violence youth gunned down, but not silencedFAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Dressed in jeans, a low-neck T-shirt and white sneakers, 19-year-old Ravon Jordan strode confidently to the ... That evening, Ravon and another friend attended an anti-violence rally in town. Afterward, the two headed to a ...07/25/2014 - 7:36 am | View Link

Youth anti-violence rally scheduled in DetroitDetroit youths are banding together to rally against violence Saturday night. The event, set to begin at 8 p.m. at Gospel Tabernacle, 19371 Greenfield in Detroit, features essays by teens speaking about the problems of violence in their community and ...12/8/2012 - 2:35 am | View Link

Huffington Post: Boy Scouts Anti-Gay PolicyNEW YORK (AP) — The national president of the Boy Scouts of America, Robert Gates, said Thursday that the organization's longstanding ban on partici...08/2/2015 - 7:04 am | View Website

Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War ...The movement against the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War began in the U.S. with demonstrations in 1964 and grew in strength in later years.08/2/2015 - 4:26 am | View Website

The Central Library downtown has already weeded out more than 30,000 volumes as it makes room for a new technology center on the first floor. Volunteers say they can’t keep up as they try to save books worth keeping from “the chipper.” …

Beer in foreground; in background, bamboo. (James Fallows) Back in the Golden Age of Blogging™, running from maybe a dozen years ago to maybe the past two or three years, personal sites often consisted of informal, incremental personal chronicles. Andrew Sullivan captured this spirit of this form, at its prime, in his 2008 Atlantic story “Why I Blog.” There’s less of that now, and the rise of social media is the main explanation.